Below are some key names, terms, events etc., intended to help you test yourself on your familiarity with the material presented in lectures and readings. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF EVERYTHING YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR.

Format

As noted on the syllabus, the midterm will consist of four main sections:

1) multiple choice questions
2) brief identifications of important names, places and terms
3) 2-3 short answers on historical and cultural topics: about a paragraph with as much information as you can give us
4) a section in which you will be asked to identify and briefly comment on passages from the section readings and/or on visual images (taken from Scarre or from the lectures).

Important people/deities (Who are they? When did they live/write? Why do they matter?)

• Numa
• Marius
• Romulus
• Cato the Elder
• Tranio
• Hannibal
• Fernand Braudel
• Lucretia
• Cato the Younger
• Spartacus
• Scipio
• Seneca
• Philippe Ariès
• Cincinnatus
• Livy
• Brutus
• Vesta
• Catiline
• Lucretius
• Cicero
• Isis
• Claudia Quinta
• C.L. Barber
• Tiberius Gracchus
• Crassus
• Pyrrhus
• Cybele
• Sextus Tarquin
• Ovid
• Plautus
• Mucius Scaevola
• Janus
• Murena
• Pompey
• Sulla

• pietas
• novus homo
• otium and negotium
• virtus
• patria potestas
• (marriage with/without) manus
• gravitas
• fides
• paterfamilias
• clientela
• gratia
• fabula palliata
• latifundia
• peculium
• popularis
• res novae
• "do ut des"
• dies fasti/dies nefasti
• senatus consultum ultimum ("Ultimate Decree")

• syncretism
• Saturnalian reversal
• polytheism
• liminal
• aetiology/aetiological
• "intrusive" and "extrusive" slavery
• anthropomorphic
• freedman
• "Struggle of the Orders"
• animism
• patrician/plebeian
• aspect (of a god)
• manumission
• divination
• Indo-European
• Hellenization
• exemplary function (of a myth)
• The Other

• Sack of Corinth
• Third Punic War
• Social War
• (supposed) Founding of Rome
• Founding of Republic
• Second Punic War
• Catilinarian Conspiracy

• consul
• censor
• augur
• praetor
• quaestor
• pontifex maximus
• dictator
• Vestal virgin
• fetial priest

• Read through your notes, as well as the online overheads (if you aren't already printing those out before lecture)
• Go through the reading questions on the syllabus (some are openended and probably unanswerable, but many do have specific answers)
• Make a timeline, to make sure you're clear on the sequence of major historical events and figures.
• Browse through the primary sources (especially the readings for section; can you briefly summarize the plot of The Brothers Menaechmus, or Mary Beard's thesis about Roman festivals?)
• Use the class listserv to ask questions about specific or general points (send e-mail to clas202-romanciv@virginia.edu)

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